Question

I want to call function A in a program. This function has a for loop inside and I’d like to shorten amount of iterations but not just changing the upper limit. How could I do it in this case? I was thinking if Matlab is capable of doing something like: one timer inside a function (or maybe inside a loop) and second in the main program that calls this function? But only rough idea, I’m a beginner. Please feed back if this is good idea and how could it be implemented?

thank you!

Answer 1

It sounds like you’re talking about having a maximum elapsed time condition in your loop, something along the lines of,

MAX_T = 10;
tic; 
for n=1:NMAX
  % Call your loop functions 
  .  
  . 
  % Break if youve spent too much time in the loop 
  if toc > MAX_T; break; end;
end

There are also ways of optimizing this, such as only checking the value of toc every N iterations.